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To Philip Lutley Sclater   28 February [1868]

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Feb. 28

Dear Sclater

My impression is that Capt. King’s Birds were given first to Zoolog. Soc. & that ultimately they went to Brit. Museum.1 But the habitats were badly kept, I have known Cape de Verde2 & I think Brazilian species marked “Tierra del Fuego”. Almost everything collected was thus marked.

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Endorsement: ‘March 1868’

1
Phillip Parker King was commander of the Adventure and Beagle on the surveying voyage to South America, between 1826 and 1830 (see Correspondence vol. 1). A catalogue of some of the bird specimens collected during the voyage was published in Narrative 1: 532–44. Sclater was preparing a work on the birds of Central and South America; it included species previously described by King (see Sclater and Salvin 1869, p. 163).
2
Cape Verde is an archipelago off the west coast of Africa.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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